Basic analysis of targeted agricultural sectors in Spain
Most promising sectors identified in Spain for IBLC concept replication were vegetable oil, olive oil, feed and fodder, wine, and grain. Many of the agro-industries from these sectors are featured for their small size, however, there is a considerable number with an acceptable level of activity where interesting opportunities and synergies for establishing IBLC have been identified.
For instance, olive pomace oil industries, distilleries and fodder dehydration industries own fully compatible equipment with the processing of biomass, have access to agricultural by-products and have experience with biomass valorisation (mainly for energy purposes). Some others, such as the vegetable oil extractors and grain dehydrators have partially compatible equipment that can be suitable to process some types of biomass. In the case of wine cellars and oil mills, although they do not possess compatible equipment, they have other assets such as storage sites and workforce, that could be very useful for the IBLC activity.
Therefore, in terms of the analysed sectors olive oil and wine sectors have been identified as the most favourable ones for establishing an IBLC due to the large volume of agricultural by-products and the good market opportunities already known and established.
Despite the fact that many bioproducts have been identified as feasible alternatives for diversification, low market activity together with the high investments that most of these agro-industries would need to afford to start-up an IBLC are consider to be the main barriers that prevent many of them to implement biomass valorisation activities.
AGROinLOG - Demonstration of innovative integrated biomass logistics centres for the Agro-industry sector in Europe
Ongoing | 2016-2020
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Spain